1/5 Live Chat: “Don’t Look Up” Director Adam McKay

I watched this movie last night, Christmas Eve, on Netflix. Loved it. It reminded me a bit of 2 Cold War era movies: Peter Sellers movie "Dr. Strangelove and how you learn to love the bomb" and Alan Arkin's movie "The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!" both of which were biting critiques of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War in general. Alan Arkin's movie was one of the few in that era that portrayed Russians in a positive light and challenged US propaganda outright with humor. Arkin's movie played in theatres about 4 years after the famous "Missiles of October" incident that nearly launched WWIII. The Russians got a copy of Arkin's movie and the Russian head of movies loved that movie. It was said that he was in tears crying with laughter. Who knows maybe Sellers and Arkin's movies helped changed the consciousness of humans about nuclear war and the Cold War. Hopefully, your movie will do likewise about how our society faces crisis.

I just finished the movie. The accuracy of it struck pretty much every nerve that I have, and I spent most of the movie screaming at the TV and trying to not rip my own hair out. So great job, excellent movie, outside of all the metaphors and such it really made me feel for the characters as things happened. Especially the last day, every single shot of it and all the sequences and events just fucked me up mentally. Again, fantastic movie.

Looking forward to the chat, hoping we can all manage to get through it without drowning in depression.

Fantastic Tragicomedy Allegory for the Climate Crisis but also a critique of government and the 4th Estate with delicious inclusive soundbites like "My brother is bipolar too," "I'm gonna go get an 8-ball," the gamer on Twitch - delightful and too many gems to mention. If this doesn't win the Academies "Picture of the Year," I don't know what could!!

Watched the film the other night and it's really stayed with me. The media and social satire was dead-on. I thought it was very well done and the last 20 minutes or so are deeply moving. I notice I've been feeling more appreciative of the small things in my own life since watching it. I was surprised that some of the media reviews that I saw were fairly negative, including one in Rolling Stone - although it also struck me that the reaction from the media seemed to mirror the critique of the media in the film. So I guess life imitating art, imitating life?

I haven't actually seen it, but I plan to and I expect to enjoy it...
However. Somebody should compare the massive online reaction to "Don't Look Up" versus the massive, but brief, online reaction to Michael Moore's "Planet of the Humans" not that long ago. Maybe even have Moore on to talk about that subject. I just think it'd be interesting.

I watched Don't Look Up last night, and when I saw David Sirota's name in the credits, I immediately signed up as a paid subscriber here. I appreciated the wicked satire and exposé immensely. This brilliant film captured the zeitgeist perfectly -- its rot and soulless perversity. I pray it could become a pivotal portal to wake up the woke and jump-start some critical thinking.

I was planning to watch it—but was prodded to see it sooner when coworkers at my hospital told me about this great and funny movie they had just watched on Netflicks. Yeah, yeah… No really. My hairstylist also recommended!
Yikes, Is there an echo in the world???

I was in NYC for a massive climate march when Leonardo DiCaprio spoke before the UN on climate. The harmonic convergence of David, Adam, and Leonardo is brilliant! Hundreds of millions watching this movie does not surprise me. We are starving for the hard truth. David Sirota, you are brilliant. We love you!

I reviewed the film (part 1)
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-12-29/dont-look-up-part-1-climate-movie-is-kryptonite-to-the-super-villains